The Times And Democrat
of Orangeburg, dated April 20, 1937, announced a movie theater for Branchville.
It reads:

"Dr. J.T. Greene
of Elloree has opened a modern moving picture theatre in Branchville.
Branchville has been without a moving picture for about seven years
and the people of this community have looked forward for a long time
to the opening of the moving picture theatre.

Dr. Greene has leased
the building of the late J.E. Byrd on Main street, and has completely
renovated on the inside and outside. He has named the theatre in honor
of the Edisto river and will call it the Edisto theatre. He has installed
one of the latest type sound machines and promises to show all of the
newest pictures."

From an interview
with Dr. Green's grandson, J.T. Green, III, in August, 2005:

"The Edisto
Theatre in Branchville was a wood frame building. It had a wood-stove
for what little heat was needed. One Halloween, my father organized
a "Spook Show" at the theatre. It was a chilly night and the
wood-stove was being used. It was throwing out too much light to see
the movie so my father told me to go backstage behind the screen where
they always kept buckets of water.

I brought a nearly-full
bucket and poured some water on the fire in the stove to dowse it a
little. The stove hissed and let out a big cloud of steam. It also let
out such a foul smell that it cleared the theatre. Someone had peed
in the water bucket backstage.

Eventually, the
Edisto Theatre was torn down and my father built a two-story brick building
with a theatre above and a restaurant below. That theatre never had
a name. There was a big sign out in front that said "Theater"
above and "Cafe" below."

Film Daily Yearbook
of 1945, states that the Edisto Theatre has 200 seats.

Theater

Simply named "Theater"
this was located in a brick building above a cafe. It was built by Mr.
J.T. Green, Jr.